Tulcea

Tulcea stands on the Danube near the head of its great delta, where the river divides into channels leading towards the Black Sea. On a hill above the water stood ancient Aegyssus, a Roman fort and naval station on the Danubian frontier. After the settlement was abandoned in the early Middle Ages, the Byzantines built another fort here. Ottoman customs records of 1506 name Tulcea as an important place for goods passing along the river.